Monthly Archives: April 2012

A Chair for Every Event

Whether you are planning a wedding, corporate or a personal event, chairs are a large part of the décor as they are placed throughout the room for your guests.  Whether your venue supplies your chairs or if you have to provide your own, it’s it’s a great opportunity to enhance the theme of your event.

Clear Resin Folding ChairsBlack Fan-back Folding ChairsWhite Resin Folding Chair

Our folding chairs come in a variety of colours, allowing you to choose a colour of chair that will add to your event decor. However, if you prefer you can cover them with folding chair covers for a classic look. These chairs have a leg bar that prevents the chairs from sinking into the grass making them the prefect addition to any outdoor event. They are also light and easy to transport.

Banquet Chairs With Chocolate Brown Chair Covers & Ivory Chair TiesBanquet Chairs With Chair Wraps and Chair TiesBanquet Chairs with Chair Wraps

Banquet chairs are perfect for events where comfort is your priority, such as seminars, long presentations, or multi-course dinners. You can cover these chairs easily with a chair cover, chair wrap or spandex covers if you want to add accents of your event colour to the room.

Tuscan Cafe ChairsTuscan Cafe Chair

Tuscan café chairs are one of the newest additions to our chair inventory. Create a café atmosphere with ease. We love the rich influence this type of chair brings to a room.

Crystal Chiavari ChairsChiavaris ChairsGold Chiavari Chairs

Chiavaris are the quintessential event chair. By far one of our favourite chair styles, the chiavari brings elegance and sophistication into a room like no other chair. With 14 unique colours to pick from, you won’t have any trouble finding a shade to coordinate with your event décor!

Chameleon Chairs With Cow Print CoversLavish Weddings - Chameleon Chairs

Chameleon chairs provide a sleek and modern feel to any type event. These chairs offer the best of both worlds; they are comfortable and extremely versatile from a design perspective. With a wide variety of seat covers, back covers, and even skirts, you can customize these chairs to fit almost any décor scheme.

Clear Genoa Chair

Clear genoas are another new chair to our growing inventory that sparks an artistic flare.  Create more visual space with these chairs. Using these chairs also helps to really highlight your table linen as they create more visual space around each table.

With so many different styles of chairs to choose from you are sure to find the perfect one to complete your desired event look.  If your venue is all ready supplying you with your chairs, this is the perfect time to stop in to select chair covers, ties and/or wraps as they are all 25% off!

New Trend: Silk Plants

Silk plants are a great alternative to fresh florals and plants. They have the ability to spruce up a room for any type of event with ease!

If you have a large venue space like the Blatchford Hanger at Fort Edmonton Park you may have more room than you know what to do with. Placing peach trees around the room immediately fills an open space and adds additional décor to your event. Not only can silk plants be used to create a dramatic effect during your reception, you can also use calla lily or rose stands down your aisle or on either side of your archway as a great frame for your ceremony.

Wedding Silk Potted FloralsPeach TreesSilk Florals in PotsTropical Themed Event

Boxwood hedges are extremely versatile as they come in a variety of different shapes and sizes to fit all your needs. Alberta tends to have unpredictable weather, and the majority of events are held indoors or in tents to insure that nobody is caught outside in awful weather. With the help of boxwoods and other silk plants, it’s easy to create an outdoor effect indoors!

Hosting a tropical themed event? Exotic plants such as palm, musa, banana or mango trees are great accents to transform an ordinary room into a tropical getaway.  Smaller tabletop arrangements will also help transform a plain room into an amazing event.

Silk plants are increasing in popularity because their quality has greatly improved in recent years. Customers appreciate just how user-friendly they are to transport and relocate from ceremony to reception without worrying about water levels or damage to the plants. Keep an eye on our promotion page to catch the 10% discount that will soon be applied to all silk plants!

DIY Wedding App with Appy Couple!

Appy Couple

Last year couples were creating wedding blogs to help organize and keep all their guests up to date on their engagement.  Appy Couple is a new free app, and the latest trend in keeping your guests up to date on your nuptials!  This awesome new app is compatible with any iPhone, iPad, Android or the web.

Appy Couple allows you to create and customize your very own wedding app that you can share with your guests. With this app you are able to include background information on your relationship such as how you and your other half met and details about the proposal.

Other great features on this app include information about the big day, bridal parties and bachelor parties. You can also include information on the key people such as the maid of honor and best man with details on how to get in contact with them if the need arises.  Share your registry, playlist from iTunes and take polls with this app!

Use this app throughout your engagement and honeymoon or use it even after your honeymoon to show photos or appreciation to guests that were a part of your big day!

Special Event Rentals New Item: Chrome & Athens Urns

A great addition to our already popular line of urn centrepieces and aisle markers are the new Chrome Urn and Athens Urn. The chrome urn offers a modern edge to your décor while the Athens urn provides a taste of the classics to your next event.

Create a fast and easy centrepeice with your favorite urn by simply placing a silk Floral Ball or a floral arrangement from your florist on top of your chosen urn for a dramatic effect.

Chrome and Athens Urn

Urns can be used in a variety of ways and provide an elegance to any event! Click here to see how we paired our athens urn with our amber glassware.

Something for the Guys – Wedding Socks

Brides generally spend a large amount of time searching for their wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses. Grooms and groomsmen on the other hand typically already have a fitted tux in the closet or head to their favourite tailor to purchase a new black or, the increasingly popular, grey suit. More and more grooms today are sporting personalized boutonnières, décor coordinating ties or bow ties and funky socks to add personality to the typical plain suit!

Cheeky photos of the groom and his groomsmen modeling showpiece socks are becoming increasingly popular with bridal parties and we love it!

Coordinate your socks with your brides wedding shoes or with the event décor for a special touch. Another great way to incorporate fun socks into your wedding is by gifting your groomsmen with personalized socks, with out without embroidered detail such as the wedding date and their wedding title!

Outstanding Occasions - Pink & Blue Argyle SocksGreen Wedding Shoes - Personalized SocksWeddingBee - Matching Orange Shoes & Aryle SocksGreen Wedding Shoes - Personalized SocksAbby Rose Photo - Pink Aryle SocksGreen Wedding Shoes - Stripped Socks

There are so many great socks to choose from like argyle, striped, polka-dots, Nintendo themed and bright neon coloured that you will be sure to find the perfect pair for you and your groomsmen. One of our favourite brands is Happy Socks. As the name suggests, these playful patterns have a way of boosting your mood just by putting them on! With so many colours and patterns to choose from for your big day, we’re sure you’ll find just the right fit.

Credits: WeddingBee, Green Wedding Shoes, Abby Rose Photo & Outstanding Occasions

The 411 On Wedding Cake Toppers

Edmonton Wedding & Party Centre Wedding Cake Toppers

Cake tables generally receive a lot of attention and not just because they are a tasty treat. The cake typically gets it’s own feature table near the head table and is the second commanding table. With all eyes drifting to the cake table at one time or another during the reception, it is important to find a topper that you love.

Silver Brushed with Diamonds Monogram Wedding Cake TopperSilver Brushed Monogram Cake Topper

Monogram toppers are great for cupcakes because you don’t need a large surface to place them on. This type of cake topper is great for the couples that love minimalism and a modern look. Monogram toppers are found in various sizes with diamond accents or plain silver to fit your individual style.

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Themed cake toppers come in so many variations that you are sure to find one that fits both of your personalities. Whether you are a workaholic, shopaholic, sport fanatic or an animal lover you will be sure to find the perfect wedding figurines. Another great idea is to pick a unique cake topper that features your future plans together like traveling around the world.

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Decorative cake toppers are perfect for the couple that is concerned with incorporating their wedding theme into the cake. A large snowflake is perfect if you are having a winter themed wedding or use a heart to symbolize your love for each other. There is also the ever so popular castle cake topper for those having a princess themed wedding reception.

Custom Wedding Cake Topper From I Do Cake ToppersCustom Wedding Cake Topper From I Do Cake Toppers

If you can’t find a cake topper that suits your personality you can have one custom made! Nowadays it’s becoming easier to find companies or individual who can create a cartoon figurine of yourselves to make a truly unique statement!

Visit our retail store, Edmonton Wedding and Party Centre, or your local wedding supplier to find your ideal wedding cake topper!

Credits: I Do Cake Toppers

Spring & Summer Events? Let us do the work!

Celebrating 27 years of business this July, it is our job at Special Event Rentals to know events inside and out. Our extensive showroom contains all divisions of Special Event Rentals in one building including event and wedding planning, a wedding and party retail store, and our recently launched sales centre where you can purchase almost anything we rent! At Special Event Rentals we strive to be the only place you need to stop to create an unforgettable event. Find décor and design inspiration in our tablescape showroom or test your own ideas in our Decorate Your Own Table area. With highly experienced event planners and tent & rentals specialists in-house, the Special Event Rentals team will make planning your next event a breeze. Check out our showroom below and view our Hours and Location online. We can’t wait to help plan your next event!

Edmonton Special Event Rentals

Do It Yourself – Wedding Wand

Throwing rice on the newlywed couple as they leave the ceremony is a tradition seen at most weddings to see the couple off on their new life journey together. Tossing rice does have a few down falls however; one being that rice will most likely get stuck in your hair! Since most couples take wedding photos between the ceremony and the reception it’s not ideal to have to spend time picking rice out of your hair so more and more couples are looking for alternatives to rice tossing.

Our favorite new alternative has to be the bell wands! Wedding wands are a great addition to your ceremony as you can incorporate your décor theme into the wands.

Do It Yourself Butterfly Wedding Wand ItemsYou will need the following items:
Assorted ribbon
Green wire
2 – Silver or gold bells
1 – Large butterfly ornament
1 – 24” long dowel
1 – Eye screw

Step 1: Insert the eye screw one end of the dowel.
Step 2: Cut your ribbon in 54” lengths.
Do it Yourself Ribbon Wedding WandStep 3: Gather your ribbon together and string in through the eye screw until its pulled halfway through.
Step 4: Loop the green wire around the two bells and attach it to the top eye screw.
Step 5: Tie the butterfly wire to the eye screw above all the other items. If you butterfly does not come with a wire you can attach your own wire or glue the butterfly to the top of the eye screw.

Do it Yourself Finished Product Butterfly Wedding Wand

Special Event Rentals is accepting admissions for our Do-It-Yourself Thursday Blog Spots. Have a great Do-It-Yourself idea? Check here for all the details on how to submit!

Freshening Up – Chair Dilemma

Yesterday, our team at Event Planning Headquarters showed how changing a few elements can give you a completely new look and experience. However if you have seen a table that you love excluding one aspect you can easily exchange the one feature and still achieve the same overall feel.

The fresh floral spring showroom table, shared in February, was airy and sweet with our new limewash chiavari’s incorporated into the setting.  However if you are unwilling to splurge on chiavari chairs for your event and dislike your venues chairs, there is an option rather than admitting defeat and starting over with a new décor theme.

Chair wraps are fantastic as they allow you to made a bold décor statement and keep your décor concept alive. By keeping the décor the same the table was able to keep its vintage elegance and heighten its contemporary modern pull by introducing the ivory chair wraps into the mix.

Fresh Floral Tablescape with Chair WrapsFresh Floral Table Setting with Chair WrapsIvory Tablecharm Place SettingGreen and Ivory MenuChair WrapsTable DecorFresh Floral Table Setting with Chair WrapsPlace Setting with MenuTable NumberVanilla Chair Wrap

What is your chair preference, are you drawn to the elegance of the chiavari chair or the luxurious appeal of the chair wrap?

Freshening Up – Lavender Elegance

In February we shared our Spring Showroom tablescapes and one of the tables featured was the lovely lavender table setting with a gorgeous beaded backdrop. Our team at Event Planning Headquarters, a division of Special Event Rentals, demonstrates just how easy it is to dramatically change a table with a few simple adjustments.

Lavender is a popular colour this year so our team decided to leave the lavender nova linen in addition to the dramatic eye catching white beaded backdrop.

Switching out the clear illusion folding chairs for silver chiavari’s brings an air of elegance into the table. A silver sequin table runner heightens the glam factor and provides texture in addition to extra sparkle! Additional crystals were brought in with the help of a fresh centerpiece, a 33” glam candelabra. The change in centerpiece enhances the glamour and adds flare with its height and the white rose ball. A tall centerpiece is a great way to add drama. As long as the base of the centerpiece is narrow, as it is with a candelabra, your guests still have a clear view of the other guests and the venue.

Silver Rim DinnerwareGlam Candelabra CentrepiecePlace CardTable SettingMercury VotiveLavender Elegance

This table is prefect for the woman who loves sparkles and wants her decor to scream elegance.  What type of table is your favourite? Simple and elegant or dramatic and bold?